The 81-year-old Paragon Carousel at Massachusetts’ Nantasket Beach won the $100,000 first prize in an online public vote on preserving Greater Boston landmarks, reports The Boston Globe.

The money will pay to replace doors and windowpanes and upgrade safety features on the handcrafted wooden merry-go-round, one of only 150 left in the country.

Another two dozen cultural and historic treasures will receive gifts ranging from $5,000 to $100,000 in the $1-million contest run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express. Voting in the Boston-area competition exceeded that of similar grant sweepstakes held in New Orleans, Chicago, and San Francisco.

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